Yea, Yea, Yea. As long as our drivers get out before them it can be a necessary evil. It's wrong no matter what you say. You can kiss Fred Smiths ass all you want but you don't matter any more then that junior driver you think should sit at home. You can can cite all the numbers you want and preach to the choir but if the company decides to put a PT in place of your run they wll. And you know you will be crying the blues!
First, I don't "think" anybody should sit at home
Good catch Red, BUT... (you knew it was coming). My 2 year number is correct. 2012-2014= 1%. You are also correct going back to 2010. Notice that you are including the only year that P/T actually did drop as a percentage (again, good catch). One more BUT. But that decline of .1% followed the year of a 3.9% increase. Again, a 3.9% increase! Followed by a .1% decrease.
It's called brow beating all legal. It won't change until you organize.
What proof do you have that organizing will change anything? YRCF uses PT and so does ABF. They are reportedly contractually bound to limit it to no more than 7%, but I've witnessed people bitching about whether or not the company is being honest about the percentage because they won't release the figure the way FedEx does. I witnessed a case of a YRCF team that sat for 3 days while PT ran, and ABF drivers are complaining left and right about the Werner trucks pulling their trailers.
Dancing around the irrelevant point you just made in an attempt to derail this thread, I will set it back on track.
Purchase transportation affects us too, so this particular debate is something that I can contribute to.
My guess would be that a set (two pups) equals one PT. In almost every case, the company will run a load and an empty with a company driver vs a half loaded PT due to the cost involved....and I'm assuming that PT gets the same rate whether they're fully loaded vs half loaded. The only time where I could see a partially loaded PT leaving the yard would be in the case where the center that loaded the PT was out of company drivers....although at our center, I've seen Central make the decision to sit on the freight till the PM due to lack of drivers vs running a partially loaded PT....and in those cases, the freight can still make service on the PM, although the windows for making that service become smaller.
I guarantee that's the next move in the making....to buy our own truckload carrier.
You always have an excuse for everything, sometimes I think you just make :
: up! No matter what these guys say you just keep coming to the rescue of the company!! I'm sure these guys aren't just making all this up?? It's almost sicking to read how you protect the wrong doings of the company!
You always have an excuse for everything, sometimes I think you just make ::
We already have our own truckload. FedEx uses PT for truckload also. We always get slammed with charcoal from May till July, and last year our new manager decided it was to much of a pain to try to pick it up so the had the "FedEx Truckload" pick it up. Our driver spent 6 hours signing and separating bills to be loaded on each trailer. When the trailers were loaded our driver Would put a seal on it, call the managerso he could close it and send the PT driver off with copies of the bill of landings. Our Manager did that two or three times a week for two months.
Excuse me.I must interject on the ABF YRC use of PTS and grievances.Most if not all of our union members at the above mentioned unionized companies.Are filing grievances and are being awarded grievance pay for the Contractual agreement violated.The last pay out for violating the CONTRACTUAL agreement at YRC Freight.Was to the tune of 200,000.00 dollars.Some CONTRACTED union members who filed.Were awarded up to at least 800.00 per violation.Whereas FedEx freight employees get nothing.Not hating.Because I'm a friend of labor and not a friend of corporate pigs.Go Union or go home.
We all browse each others boards.We all make comments.Some may not be right but not all.I read on one of these conversations.The fact that at ABF and YRC there was nothing that those drivers could do about PTS and there union.I felt compelled to correct that rhetoric.That is all.
This is not a Union Discussion Thread Take the debate to the debaread
http://www.truckingboards.com/bb/threads/the-union-debate-thread.65416/
I feel compelled to reply on that 10% pts.Because in our contract (if you're union).It states clearly that the company can use up to 4% pts.and up to so much percentage wise on the rail.At YRCF that pts % ticked up by 2%.Allowing for a total of 6% pts.Alot more legalise to that pts language.Hopefully you get the meaning.Without a contract.You can let your feet decide Or sit at home waiting for a work calljohndeere402st: 917123 said:
